World Population
The population of the world in 2018
7.6 billion (compared to 1 billion in early 19th century)
This process of moving to cities changed the setting and environment of where people lived in the twentieth century, according to your textbook.
Global urbanization
This 1948 declaration rejected racism as a principle of international order
UN Declaration of Human Rights
This term refers to the era since the onset of the Industrial Revolution during which humanity has had the greatest impact on the global environment
The Anthropocene Era
This environmental issue has become the most pressing in the world for environmentalists in the 21st century
Climate Change
This Revolution in Agriculture fueled population growth in the twentieth century
The Green Revolution
This 1918-19 pandemic killed 50 to 100 million people
Influence pandemic
This film industry from South Asia became immensely popular in the Soviet Union, the United States, Europe and elsewhere in the post-WW2 era.
Bollywood
This term refers to the twentieth-century consensus of communist, capitalist and other countries that economic growth is the most desirable objective for societies.
Development
This wave of environmentalism began in the 1960s
Second-Wave Environmentalism
By the end of the twentieth century, fewer births were taking place in this type of country
Industrialized countries
This European country banned headscarves(the veil) in 2004
France
Rock and Jazz were considered threatening to the governments of these countries during the Cold War
Communist countries
This 7 million square mile collection of garbage has come to symbolize environmental degradation
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
This 1962 book renewed American interest in environmental causes
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
90 percent of population growth in the last hundred years occurred in these three continents
Asia, South America, Africa
This disease originated in Africa in the colonial era but spread globally by the 1980s
HIV/AIDs
This fundamentalist movement in India first took shape in the 1980s
Hindutva (Hindu nationalism)
This environmental issue has become the most pressing in the world
Climate Change
The Trump Administration withdrew from this 2015 agreement
The Paris Climate Agreement
This UN specialized agency provides public health programs that have helped to extend life expectancy.
The World Health Organization (WHO)
In 2007, this percentage of the world's population lived in cities or towns.
50% (compared to 15% in 1900)
This 2004-05 message from all major schools of Islam condemned terrorism
The Amman Message
This 1986 event turned the world's attention to the dangers of nuclear power
Chernobyl
This Russian lake, the largest body of freshwater in the world, experienced extreme pollution in the late twentieth century
Lake Baikal